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garry's subposthaven
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garry's subposthaven is a personal blog at sub.garrytan.com about startups, economics and culture. Since 2013, 15 different Hacker News readers have linked it 21 times, most often “Hackers can be business guys, and other lessons from Paul Graham”. The last post was in 2016, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
One comment mentions a video Gary Tan posted, in a thread asking why a government would have created bitcoin. It does not discuss the linked writing itself.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Links and things I find online
Most-linked posts?
- Hackers can be business guys, and other lessons from Paul Graham2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2013-04-14
- Rat Park Experiment: A New Theory of Addiction2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2013-09-16
What Hacker News says?
My understanding is that whoever built bitcoin was pretty darn good at what they were doing. I question whether the best of the best in cryptography would choose to work for a government over earn enough money to spend time building something awesome, like bitcoin. This is coming off watching the video Gary Tan posted recently [1]. To me, the only question left is about leaking. What's a greater incentive against le…
Comment linking /hackers-can-be-business-guys-and-other-lessons-from-an-interview-with-paul-graham-during-the-first-yc-batch-in-2005
on “Ask HN: Why would a government have created bitcoin?”Submitted Malibu homeowners foiled by $30K Kickstarter campaign as a story · 596 points
HN discussionSubmitted Martin Luther King Jr. was wiretapped as a story · 258 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Three Kinds of Laziness as a story · 204 points
HN discussionSubmitted Hackers can be business guys, and other lessons from Paul Graham as a story · 153 points
HN discussionSubmitted Rat Park Experiment: A New Theory of Addiction as a story · 146 points
HN discussionSubmitted Want: The airbag scarf that replaces a bulky bicycle helmet, inflates in 100ms as a story · 98 points
HN discussionSubmitted Lobster today is viewed as a delicacy, but was once reviled as a story · 75 points
HN discussionSubmitted Rat Park experiment upturns conventional wisdom about addiction as a story · 48 points
HN discussionSubmitted What happens when ambitious dreamers get a hold of a giant spigot of cash? as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted To be a master of metaphor as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Bitcoin vs fiat currency vs precious metals (table, at a glance) as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Make something society wants. Don't focus on how much you want money as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Living in the past: Reality may be delayed in our brains as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Delayed IPOs as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Don't drink your own Kool-Aid as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted We think we're all heroes of our own stories as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Seth Godin made more on a book he gave away than on a NYT bestseller as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Origins of conflict as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Generational shift: Millennials buy smartphones, not cars as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted PRISM is going to cost American cloud and IT industries $180 BILLION as a story · 1 points
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